Kathleen Thum, Mason Eubanks, and Benjamin Lock are 3 artists who, while having very different methods in making their “abstractions,” share a similarity that most masterful artists who work in this vein have: a precept to subliminal reference and a direction towards the ideas of space and how we imagine we inhabit it. There is potency in each of these artists’ works found on an almost primordial plane, where beginnings and ends are equally important; where the work seems self consciously aware of its own creation. And while certainly art almost always transports the viewer to another “reality,” each artist here points to a specific layer of real or imagined life and alludes to the body: from the microscopic to the massive to the surreal and potentially alien. The questions we ask as we enter the space strengthen the implications of each body of work.
